/lit/ - Literature

Post main characters that are literally you

I'm holding a local reading group on Notes from the Underground.

Can anybody recommend me some supplementary reading to prepare me for it?

Part I "Underground"
>Literally the "fucking normies" meme

Books like this

Just finished this. And well, it should have been longer desu. As soon as I was beginning to invest myself into the characters in part 2, the book ends abruptly. Obviously since it was written by Dostoevsky, I got the feeling that I was reading TBK at times.

Anyways, thoughts on the book /lit/?

The real Notes from Underground were the shit-stained pages of this book after I wiped my ass with them and flushed them down to the sewers where they belong.

This one is literally me

Books that help make me a better person and provide conciliatory feelings? Just finished pic related and it has established a new route for being comfortable with myself

I just finishing reading the greatest tragicomedy of all time. What the FUCK was his problem?

>tfw to smart to be happy : The Book

I read Notes from Underground (the P&V translation) yesterday, and I was blown away. Underground man is one of the most fascinating characters I've ever encountered in literature, and I laughed until I cried during the dinner scene. Are any of Dostoevsky's other works this fascinating and hilarious? Are there any similar works of literature by other authors?

P.S. Is the P&V hatred a meme? I've seen lots of people accuse them of being too literal, but I didn't have any problems with their translation of Notes. In fact, it was a fairly easy read. I'm considering picking up their translation of The Idiot. Should I?

Just finished part 1 of Notes and I feel like a total brainlet. Some parts were easy enough to follow, but others I had a really hard time understanding. Between reading footnotes and looking up words/phrases I'm not familiar with (not a native English speaker) I feel like the bigger picture got lost on me. From what i could tell skimming trough a couple pages of part 2 it gets a little easier, but i'm afraid things won't make much sense if I didn't get part 1. I'm going to re-read and hopefully get a better understanding of whats going on. Anyone else felt like this reading Notes for the first time?

Should 'relatability' factor in the critical analysis of the work? On one hand, being able to fully empathize with the character boosts the appreaciation immensely, but such thing is also purely accidental.